Chateau Clos des Jacobins Red Dry Wine 2009 750ml / Magali & Thibaut Decoster

Clos des Jacobins has a dark color, deep and bright. The bouquet is powerful and mineral with notes of black fruits, chalk, blackberry and spices. On the palate, the wine is ample and rich. It shows attractive texture, very elegant and long lasting. Clos des Jacobins is a model of complexity and balance.

The wine is extremely consistent and may be laid out for at least 15 years.

TECHNICAL SHEET

APPELLATION Saint-Emilion Grand Cru - Grand Cru Classé

SURFACE AREA 8,5 ha

LOCATION Pied de côte

SUN EXPOSURE South-Facing

SOIL Limestone rock, Clay and Limestone scree

VINE DENSITY 6 500 to 8 500 vines/ha

AVERAGE AGE OF THE VINES 30 ans

CULTURE PRACTICES Reasoned with ploughing/plowing and grassing

PRUNING Guyot cut with de-budding

BLEND

Merlot: 80%, Cabernet Franc: 18%, Cabernet Sauvignon: 2%

ALCOHOL 14,5 %

HARVEST PERIOD From September 25th to October 9th, 2009

HARVEST By hand, in small crates, several sortings

AVERAGE YIELD 36 hl/ha

VINIFICATION Soaking from cold to 32°C

Pigeages (punching down the cap)

Malolactic fermentation in new wood barrels

FERMENTATION 32 days

VATS Wooden (60hl)

AGEING 18 months - 90% new oak

BOTTLEING May 2nd, 2011

PRODUCTION 40 000 bottles

OENOLOGIST CONSULTANT Hubert de Bouard de Laforest

HISTORY

Clos des Jacobins takes its name from the Dominican monks known as “Jacobins” whose convent was attached to the Church of Saint-Jacques in Paris.

These Jacobins lived on the outskirts of the Saint-Emilion village and used the farm buildings to accommodate pilgrims on their way to or from Santiago de Compostela. They farmed the vineyard to produce their wine, which provided them with most of their income.

LOCATION

Clos des Jacobins is located at the entrance to the medieval village in the heart of Saint-Emilion’s great terroirs. The vineyard has exceptional homogeneity and has existed as one single block of vines planted around the cellars since the 17th century. These vines are situated at the foot of the Saint-Emilion slope, where its clay soils are enhanced by the limestone scree that has eroded from the plateau above. This special location and its south-facing orientation provide a unique, early-ripening and generous terroir. The cellars have been renovated in their entirety; and the oak vats are temperature-controlled.
Having risen to the ranks of Saint-Emilion’s greatest wines between 1940 and 1950, Clos des Jacobins has been a Classified Growth since official classification began in Saint-Emilion in 1954. In more recent times it won the Grands Crus Classés de Saint-Emilion trophy in Hong-Kong in 2006 after being semi-finalist twice, before it was finalist once again in 2008.